1 Officer killed: A police officer was shot and killed early Saturday after stopping two people and calling for help in a suburb of Orlando, authorities said. Windermere Officer Robert German called for backup after stopping a young man and woman on foot shortly before 4 a.m., investigators said. German, 31, was found on the ground when a deputy arrived at the scene, Orange County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Jane Watrel said. Other responding officers heard shots fired and found two bodies nearby matching the description of the man and woman German had stopped, Watrel said. They are believed to have committed suicide. Their identities were not released.

2Politician resigns: Rhode Island House Speaker Gordon Fox is resigning from his leadership post and will not run for re-election, he said Saturday, a day after federal and state authorities raided his office and home as part of a criminal investigation that they would not detail. The 52-year-old Providence Democrat said he planned to serve out the remainder of his term, but that "my personal focus going forward will be on my family and dealing with the investigation." Fox became the nation's first openly gay House speaker when he assumed the post in 2010.

3 Strangling arrest: Shasta County jail officials said an inmate charged in the slayings of three people tried to strangle his cellmate. Joshua McCormick, 33, was caught trying to choke Kenneth Edwards, 23, in their cell late Friday, deputies said. Edwards was hospitalized after the incident and later returned to the jail, said Sheriff's Sgt. Pat Kropholler. Deputies said they plan to charge McCormick with attempted murder for the attack.

4 Helicopter crash: Video shows that a news helicopter that went down in Seattle and killed two people last week began rotating at takeoff before it pitched forward in a fiery crash, the National Transportation Safety Board said. Surveillance footage taken from security cameras near the crash site shows that the aircraft began rotating counterclockwise during takeoff Tuesday from a rooftop helipad, the agency said late Friday night in a preliminary report. The helicopter continued rotating before it pitched forward. Available video apparently did not show the actual crash on a street next to the Space Needle, where the KOMO-TV chopper burst into flames, setting several vehicles ablaze and spewing burning fuel down the street.

5 Long fall: A 12-year-old girl survived a 35-foot plunge down an elevator shaft in a New York City apartment building, officials said. The girl fell Friday from the lobby of the SoHo building into the elevator pit. She suffered multiple injuries and was in serious condition, fire officials said. The elevator apparently had been out of service at the time of the accident.

6 Police review: The Justice Department will conduct an independent review of the San Diego Police Department as it faces officer-misconduct allegations. The department announced Friday its office of community-oriented policing services will conduct the audit. Details are to be released Monday.